Nothing is more divisive than the constant Democratic/sycophantic focus on identity politics. That shouldn't surprise anyone, though, as they're the geniuses that claim to be all for free speech, but saddled our civilization with political correctness.

I, personally, wouldn't take my young kids to a gay pride parade. Much in the same way I wouldn't take my young kids to a hetero pride parade. I'm attempting, however Sisyphean the task, to keep them from being sexualized as long as possible while still being mindful that it happens organically.

Teen-agers, on the other hand...sure, why not? With my older kids, something like that starts lively conversation, the likes of which I've encouraged since they were old enough to argue.

Well, I just read how he never said or wrote that "dysfunctional homosexual" line, so now I have to wonder whether he actually said this.

Although it is, you know, true. I wouldn't take children to a parade where men walk around with their genitals hanging out and painted day-glo orange, carrying signs about how much they enjoy oral and anal sodomy. But that's me.

This whole thing is moot. The New York electoral apparatus has completely failed our service men and women. They failed to send out their absentee ballots EVEN AFTER BEING GIVEN AN EXTENSION. The tinfoil hat on my head says there is a helluva lot more here than some maid or secretary putting them in the garbage by accident. The military tends to vote GOP (telling, that...) and there are more than 50k of them registered in the greater NY area alone.

I don't believe that! After the 2000 Florida election fiasco, our trusty pols promised they would fix all election problems! It's now ten years later and I am sure they kept their word to us so you must be making this story up! Heh.

Here's the thing that's jarring to me in all of this. Why should the government -- and by extension, a Governor -- care about how a particular child is being raised as long as the kid is healthy, happy, and on the road to functioning adult status? Why is Paladino, a Republican who presumably agitates for small government, even offering an opinion on something that is fundamentally not the Government's business at all?

I know Politicians have elevated opinions of themselves and perhaps think of their pronouncements as profound, but there are times when you shouldn't talk. This was one of them.

I don't live there, so apparently DTL would say it's not my fight and I should shut up. Feh...

Disenfranchising a wide random swath of people due to the ineffectiveness of their poking abilities is one thing. Specifically targeting the absentee ballots for military voters, knowing full well how they tend to vote, borders on a clear and present threat.

I agree with MadMan that Paladino is an exceptional father, having fathered a child with his mistress. Infidelity is thought to be a character flaw for Democrats, but is not worth mentioning when a Republican does it.

I fail to see how having a mistress is equal to gay pride parades. One happens behind closed doors and the other is THRUST into people's faces. I'd say ban these abominations. Bring back my 1950s America, the way I used to remember it! God, Country, Apple Pie and Marilyn Monroe!

FLS: Fathering a child and then being a father to a child are very much Republican virtues. Fathering a child and cutting out appears to be the Democratic method, taking into account that the opportunity to abort the child was apparently overlooked.

It is a dreadful thing -- and there is no Yes, but that can be tacked on to this statement -- to give your child a bombshell secret about you and your wife, and then tell them not to tell your wife.

If that's what he did (I honestly don't know and haven't been keeping up with NY politics because dtl told me not to), then it would certainly be reprehensible. As a father, one of, if not THE, greatest fear I have is disappointing my children in any way. Disappointment when they find out about an affair and other kids plus the added disappointment of begging to join the father in dishonesty? It would be bridge-diving time.

Of all the problems confronting NY state I would put outlandish behavior at Gay Pride events pretty far down on the list. Shame on Paladino for even making this an issue. He should be talking about Rangel testimonial dinners, Hevesi taking a guilty plea for a million dollar bribe and walking without prison, a state senator who attacks his girl friend with a broken bottle and likewise walks, Cuomo involvement in HUD's support of NINJNA loans. This is dumb beyond belief.

Gay pride parades are not G rated. You shouldn't be taking your kids to them unless you want to expose them to t guys dressed in chaps with holes in the back to allow for anal penetration parading around and or having sex in the street or walking their lovers around with leashes.

Scott, Paladino told his children about his other daughter, but kept the secret from his wife for 8 or 9 years. Then, after his oldest son died in an accident -- you can imagine his wife's emotional state -- he told her about his affair and the daughter it produced, because, in part, his dead son would have wanted her to know.

Mrs. Paladino decided to accept the girl into their family, and seems, from this article in the NYT, to be genuinely gracious about the whole affair.

My hat's off to her. If she wants to give a speech about what's moral and what's not, I suppose I'd listen. But her husband? I think he can lay off the moralizing.

Gay pride parades are not G rated. You shouldn't be taking your kids to them unless you want to expose them to t guys dressed in chaps with holes in the back to allow for anal penetration parading around and or having sex in the street or walking their lovers around with leashes.

"Obviously he should have forced the woman to have an abortion and then there would not be a little girl that everyone including his wife seems to love walking the earth. Jeeez."

He is still guilty of hypocrisy. I watched an interview in which he said Cuomo did not understand and embrace family values like he did. Having an affair would sort of disqualify him from such holier-than thou moralizing.